Measuring up: Conference abstracts

Session 1 - Performance measurement and performance management: An overview of issues and challenges

• Jeremy Hurst: Performance Measurement and Improvement in OECD Health Systems: Overview of Issues and Challenges

Session 2 - Performance measurement and performance management from the perspective of various actors: A review of experiences in selected countries

• Clive Smee: Improving value for money in the United Kingdom national health service: performance measurement and improvement in a centralised system
• Nina Rehnqvist: Improving accountability in a decentralised system: A Swedish perspective
• Niek Klazinga: Can a tulip become a rose? The Dutch route of guided self-regulation towards a community based integrated health care system
• Gregg Meyer: Providing performance information for consumers: Experiences from the United States

Session 3 - Performance measurement activities at the international level: How can international comparisons assist national policy-making?

• Stéphane Jacobzone: "Opening the black box": What can be learned from a disease-based approach?
• Christopher Murray (WHO): The World Health Organisation programme to measure health systems performance, and how it can help governments in improving performance

Session 5 - Towards integrated and coherent health information systems for performance monitoring: the Canadian experience

• Richard Alvarez and Michael Wolfson: Towards integrated and coherent health information systems for performance monitoring: the Canadian experience

Session 6 - Building and implementing measurement frameworks

• Richard Lessard, Denis Roy and Fred Paccaud: Monitoring performance, improving health: Enhancing health services' impact on population health
• Lisa Berkman: From understanding health risks to improving population health: an international perspective on the role of public health
• Jan Bennett: Counting and accounting for public health program performance in a federal system
• Angela Coulter: Measuring patients' experiences: How can we make health care systems work for patients?
• Eddy van Doorslaer: Equity in the use of physician visits in OECD countries: Has equal treatment for equal need been achieved?
• Gérard de Pouvourville: Measuring the quality of hospital care: The state of the art -- what information should be delivered to the public
• Peter Smith : Developing composite indicators for assessing health system efficiency
  
• Naoki Ikegami and John Hirdes: Measuring the quality of long-term care in institutional and community settings

Session 7 - Applying indicators to improve health system performance

• Sheila Leatherman: Applying performance indicators to health systems improvement